Be part of the countdown to launch!

By Emma on January 8, 2013

Well, I can’t quite believe it but there are only ten more Split Worlds stories to write and release before the launch of Between Two Thorns. [Insert excited and terrified screaming and hand flapping here.]

In case you didn’t know, I’ve been releasing a short story every week for a year and day (there was a pause in the middle due to all the Angry Robot deal stuff that took me by surprise). Each one is designed to be a tiny glimpse into the world(s) the novels are set in and some of them feature characters in the books. Whilst it isn’t necessary to read the stories to enjoy the books, my hope is that if you read the stories, you’ll get some geeky thrillgasms when you read the books from knowing the vignettes behind some of the details. If you want to get each one (plus a bonus story) every week in your inbox, you can sign up here.

So anyway, I wanted to do something a little bit different for the last ten. I’d like to invite you to submit story prompts below and if yours either inspires a story and/or appears within it, I’ll send you a handwritten copy of the story and a little note to say thank you. A prompt could be just an idea, a line of dialogue, a title or a tiny little description – preferably of something odd. I like odd things. And slightly creepy stuff too.

All you need to do is pop it below and if your prompt is picked I’ll get in touch with you privately to make arrangements for getting your prize to you. Oh, and if the comments are playing silly sods, come and find me on Twitter instead – I’m @emapocalyptic :)

“The letter had remained unopened for precisely 54 years, 6 months and three days. She had decided to break the seal, today, at sunset.”Paul Weimer (@princejvstin) recently posted..Describe me in a word

Idea #1:
A group (5 to 8) of friends discover that – when they are all together – something powerful (and potentially dangerous) occurs (reality splinters or warps, time distorts or overlaps, people become mute/blind/deaf, demons or angels can enter our world, etc)

idea #1
I love the song lyric ‘standing on the edge of forever’ but do not know if you could use that as an idea?

idea #2
My other pet idea is: If you read the news you could be forgiven for think that some things just can’t be done. Then someone goes and does it. Usually because this person has never been told that it can’t be done!

Following on from Stacey’s post, here is a 100 word descriptive piece that I wrote about year ago. Not enough of a story to get published, but it gained positive comments. Perhaps it is something that might inspire the whirly-gigs in your thought processes.

Sean

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Tom’s New Job

Tiny feral eyes glistening with menace. A nose that was an enormous dirigible anchored to an incredibly craggy rock face. The moustache was road kill, a dead badger. With teeth of glowing green phosphorus stalactites and stalagmites inhabiting the mouth. The chin was comparable to the iceberg that sank the Titanic. Skin resembling faded parchment. The hair was better, a wild wood of a forest gone mad and ears of carbuncle and cabbage.

The body dressed in one of Saville rows finest pinstripes.

Tom knew he was going to like his new job making digital avatars for the terminally insane

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